Temporal Pearls

The man spoke about many things that Seth at first thought were unrelated to him, but the more he heard, the more he found how valuable the information was.

He learned about the six powerful factions operating in Gawee who have a very strong backing from the real world and all of them united under GEST.

Seth stared at the man and asked a question related to him, "If I'm a very important figure to them and they know my name, then why didn't they contact me in the real world."

"Because once we leave the game world, we somewhat become eluded as if our brain was jumbled off. Those that can sketch also can't do it for some reason. The Supreme AI that governed the game was extremely powerful, the most powerful known in our world."

Seth asked many other questions regarding the game and also the real world before he focused on himself.

The people see him as a member of an elusive organization that focuses on travelling around Gawee.

They later assume that he is just the son of a very rich person who travels and wants to do things his way.

There were all kinds of assumptions about him, but that wasn't the most important; GEST and those factions that made it want to know everything about him and, if possible, to acquire it.

However, Dream Fortune has halted all that. She has ordered no one in the name of GEST to make a move on him until she said otherwise.

Even Blue Iron Cloud were acting on their faction order, not within GEST.

"Among GEST, who knew about this operation and who approved of it!"

"Brown Team knows but doesn't know when we will make a move. We made sure to delude them because we didn't want them to follow us. They too want to make a move, but because they want Dream Fortune's favour, they keep silent."

"Who among the GEST knows and approves of the operation?" Seth asked the question again.

The man wandered around the question as if something was preventing him from speaking the truth.

And because they have beeped with the Brown Team, he narrated their issue and wanted Seth to hold them in a bad light.

Zulu deliberated before he said, "Skylar is one of the second in command to Dream Fortune and currently rules Underground Valley. He heard about our mission and did make it clear that Dream Fortune has prohibited any move against you. But as a Sky Cloud Faction, we can do it."

Sky Cloud Faction was their real name, but they changed it to Blue Iron Cloud Team. Seth also learned that the Brown Team was actually a Bronze Faction.

What was shocking was that Dragneel was the founder of the Faction, he was a big shot in the real world with so many connections and assets.

They have about 210 members across Amma but only 16 of them were in Gawee land.

Ten were the ones Seth fought and two were always with Dream Fortine to provide her protection. One was in Underground Valley, and three had infiltrated other factions for information.

But what amazed Seth was that everyone was inside a massive ship that perpetually drifted in clouds in the real world. Inside this Ship, they were in Cabins.

When they log out, they will have combat training, share experiences and also submit reports to the managers before they make more plans.

Seth has assumed it was unique to them but learned that almost every Faction takes their Gamers to a secret place and isolated for effective grinding.

One important information he got was that they didn't start using Bronze Cabin directly but started from Rank 1 Cabin.

This limited their capabilities at first but that conditioned their body gradually before they moved to Rank 2, then to Rank 3, till they reached Rank 5.

Now, almost all of them were using Bronze Cabin but some are still using Rank 5. Your journey continues on empire

The gradual change in cabin made the body advance steadily in the real world and mastery of skills like Martial Arts and other skills that one can take to the real world became more smooth and perfect.

Seth was smart; he knew that a regular Record Book couldn't keep this important information; for that reason, he stuck the Record Book with the Red Signature Book and made its aura permeate it.

This will provide some semblance of protection for the information being documented inside.

Seth nodded his head; he, too, was getting tired of holding the man's neck. He racked his brain, trying to come up with the solution to the man's problem.

To tell the truth, Seth might have killed them many times in the game and even gone overboard with his activities now but he was still a bit sane to not cause their death in the real world.

He doesn't want to become a murderer. They may have hunted him now but they want something from him only not to kill him.

The man now, if he can't take control of himself, will be lost to time, and that may violently impact his character and may lead to his eventual death.

Seth sighed thinking, 'Since my hold kept him here, it means I can help him. Maybe I can give him a drop of my blood to keep him anchored. It won't work, my blood only explodes and doesn't carry my First Might!'

The very reason Seth was able to cut Zullu's Tally Hand was because Seth was the First Temporal Warrior and had First Might. If not, even with Terror Blade, he may cut it but the connection between the man and the hand will not be severed and have this violent reaction.

Thinking in that line Seth looked at the man and made him stand, "The only way for you to survive is to pledge your allegiance to me. I'm the First Lord in Gawee and I have my own land and people."

The man's eyes widened in shock. They have assumed a lot of things to be his class but never came to the decision that he is actually a Noble with Chieftaincy on his head.

"No one knows and I intend to keep it that way. You have five seconds to decide!"

'I hope this anchors him.' Seth prayed.

"To…I pledge to be a loyal man under you." He stammered, his eyes shaking as he looked at the lying body of Dragneel.

The man calmed down for some reason and he stared at Seth.

Seth then hoped that was enough and then asked, "How can I get rid of this wound!"

Zulu looked at Seth's neck and thought before he said, "Only time will heal it. Captain Navy placed a lot of power into his strikes so I believed it may take a week before the effect vanished!"

Seth sighed, and suddenly, an explosion happened, and both of them looked in that direction.

The glass dome Seth trapped Blast Hand was yanked up away, and the place was now covered with red mist; soon it vanished, and no one was there anymore.

Underground Valley

Inside one of the skyscrapers, there is a steel room covered with numerous inscriptions and artefacts.

There was a circular flat artifact and on top of them were silhouettes depicting each of the Blue Iron Cloud team members.

Suddenly, the Blast Hand silhouette became tangible and he dropped from the platform. He breathed deeply ragged, his body crimson and his skin nonexistent.

A girl ran to him and raised her hand, but because she was extremely weak, her hand that extended forward to heal him burst and exploded. She jumped back with a scream as Gawee's pain assaulted her mind.

Her scream made others come into the special room. A black-skinned man hardened his body and helped Blast Hand up as they went out toward another room.

There were beds isolated using barriers. On one of them, Almight had regained himself but couldn't move properly.

Magic Binder on another bed squirming and groaning. He can't log out to relieve the backlash of losing his special organs he has been nurturing.Nôv(el)B\\jnn

Blast Hand was placed on one of the beds, and mist was sent to him; the moment he breathed in, he was able to use his powers to clean his system from the blood explosion effect. He fainted immediately afterwards.

Earthore was standing at the door, watching what happened. His death was quick and fast and there wasn't any drawback like the others.

"We need to send someone there," Earthore said. He knew things had gone worse the moment Almight was reduced to a screaming brute. The man was one of the strongest he knew but now look at him.

"We can't!" The doctor said. It was the girl that lost her hand, she had regained her hand back, and she stared at them with fear and anger. "We don't have anyone that can change the table!" She added.

Battlefield.

Seth released Zullu and watched the man moving slowly, his body was no longer vanishing.